Ecological consistency of SSU rRNA-based operational taxonomic units at a global scale.

PLoS Comput Biol · 2014 · PMC3998914 · PMID 24763141

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In other words, organisms sampled from a defined skin habitat were more similar to each other in 16S sequence than expected for a global background; this enrichment was statistically highly significant (p<<10 −16 , one-sided Mann-Whitney-U test, see Table S1 ).

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For both ecological terms and inferred habitats, we observed a clear trend towards higher ecological similarity at higher SSU similarity.

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